Microsoft Eyeing AOL Partnership From Bloomburg: Shares of Time Warner Inc., the world’s largest media company, rose as much as 2.4 percent after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online to Microsoft Corp. Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, would pay New York-based Time Warner [...]

Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media Needs a Shopping Search Engine After announcing the formation of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Rupert Murdoch spent $580m to acquire Intermix, the owner of MySpace, the insanely popular (28m unique users) community site. He bid around $94m for a leading Australian real estate site, although the company recently rejected the bid. [...]

eBay In Acquisition Talks With Skype VOIP First it was Yahoo, then Murdoch’s News Corp, now eBay is rumored to be interested in a Skype VOIP Messenger acquisition. Skype, which revolutionized Internet communication with its VOIP messaging software, is valued around $3 billion. The introduction of a profitable communications software to eBay makes total sense, [...]

Steve Ballmer Attending Google’s 7th Birthday Party? Not much to write about this, but just wanted to wish a happy birthday to Google, which just turned seven. Google has changed a lot in seven years, growing from a simple mathematically algorithmic search engine in a Stanford lab to a mega media and advertising company with [...]

Ask.com – Time For Jeeves to Sleep With the Fishes Expect Jeeves to disappear from Ask Jeeves in the next couple of months as more signs are coming that Barry Diller’s IAC is planning on a way to off the butler mascot of Ask Jeeves, Inc and rebrand into Ask.com. Barry gave the first clue [...]